The term telecommunications is derived from “tele”, meaning at a distance, and “communications”, meaning exchanging of information. The history of electronic communications has thus far been applied to the exchange of spoken, visual, and or textual information between pairs of people, pairs of machines, and people and machines. The role of telecommunications has been to provide a medium for the...

In this paper, we describe how satellite communications may contribute to disaster management. During emergency situations, satellite communications present many advantages in supporting or replacing a terrestrial infrastructure (if any) subject to destruction or saturation. However, devising the right deployment model deserves close scrutiny in order to fit the responders’ needs and sustain fi...

Discoveries, inventions, and research studies of scientists engineers in both academia industry have shaped the technology roadmaps companies telecommunications industry. IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) provides platform venues for collaboration networking among global technical communities telecommunications, which are critical moving forward our It is this reason that ComSoc has created ...

Distribution Line Communications technology allows the usage of electrical power supply networks for communications purposes and, today, also broadband communication services. The main idea behind DLC is the reduction in operational costs and expenditure for realization of new telecommunications networks. Using electrical supply networks for telecommunications has also been known since the begi...

Telecommunication usage has skyrocketed in recent years and will continue to grow as developing world reaches to wireless as the communication medium of choice. The telecommunications world is only now addressing the significant environmental impact it is creating as well as the incredible cost on power usage. This realization has led to a push towards Green Communications that strives for impr...

The lower power consumption and lower mass of high-bandwidth optical telecommunications relative to RF telecommunications make laser communication technology extremely attractive for returning data from future NASA/JPL deep-space probes. JPL is building a research and development optical communications telescope laboratory (OCTL) at its Table Mountain Facility in Southern California to evaluate...

SET the Brazilian Society for Television Engineering has been studying the topic and has been following up closely on the work done in other countries and by ITU. In 2013, it provided the Ministry of Communications and Anatel (Brazilian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency) with extensive interaction with companies and regulators from countries as the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany. It also...